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In clinical psychology, a phobia is defined as an unreasonable, exaggerated fear of an object or situation, causing anxiety and distress. Typically, phobias are distinguished from genuine fears by their irrationality: think of your great-aunt Molly, who used

Theresa May is due to announce this week that in future, you can become a Superintendent or Inspector in the Police Farce without any prior experience of policing. It’s called Direct Entry, possibly from the hallowed grounds of Kidderminster University’s Media Studies Department.

In the dim recesses of my memory, quite possibly falsely, I seem to recollect watching an interview with the late and great actor Sir Laurence Olivier in which he made certain observations about playing the role

Two fine young women, photographed in time-honoured fashion with the ubiquitous smiling policeman outside the home of the British Prime Minister. It is a scene impossible today; the days when disagreeing with the prevailing politics meant writing

So he has finally found the venue where he is prepared to have a camera pointed at him. The curtains behind the lectern at the Dutch venue was too far to travel when he was busy; the curtains behind his desk

I am suffering from a monumental bout of cis-titus, I have been reading extensively on the subject for 24 hours – and found myself in a world of such venom, such rancor, such toxic spleen, that I am truly shocked.

My, but the Police are unhappy this morning. Bawling their eyes out in fact.

The Assistant Commissioner, Simon Byrne, has described Detectives as ‘Constables in T-shirts and jeans’ thereby upsetting everyone. The detectives are upset at the insinuation that they are no better than your ‘ornery, plodding

As regular readers will know, just before Christmas I started an amateur investigation into the so-called “Black Death”, the deadly plague of unparalleled ferocity and virulence that spread across Europe, Britain and

I am the very model of the Paedo-finder General,I’m investigating celebrities, and I’m chastely puritanical,I twat on Twitter and with privacy I’m economical;I’ve learned to speak at conferences, colloquia and seminarsI’ve even sent impassioned pleas to European commissarsI never Continue reading →